HACKER Q&A
📣 sharps_xp

Why can't technical phone screens by async?


For at least the phone screen, having to wrangle two people's schedules as well as the fact that most interviewers will use up an entire hour when they know 20 minutes into the interview that the candidate has already failed seems wasteful.

If it were async, perhaps via screen recording, then you can solve both of those problems?


  👤 verdverm Accepted Answer ✓
Use a calendar meeting service like Calendly

Seems like less overhead than having to record, upload, and watch multiple videos.

Conversation is also not asynchronous, the idea is to have a conversation, not a Q&A sequence. The in-the-moment stuff is important.